(VOVWORLD) -South Korea's navy has launched an annual drill around a group of small islands claimed by both Tokyo and Seoul
(VOVWORLD) - A group of South Korean lawmakers on Monday landed on an islet in the East China Sea disputed with Japan, prompting a protest from Japan and straining bilateral ties
(VOVworld) - According to South Korean media, a group of South Korean local assembly members announced Monday that they plan to erect a “comfort women” statue on the islets called Dokdo...
(VOVworld) – Relations among China, Japan, and South Korea have been tense recently after a group of 85 Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in downtown Tokyo during the annual autumn festival....
(VOVworld) - Japan's Defense White Paper, which was announced at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, expressed "deep concern" over China's maritime strategy
(VOVworld) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with South Korean President Park Geun-hye Thursday on the sidelines of a global nuclear security summit in Washington
(VOVworld) – The Japanese cabinet on Tuesday approved a defence White Paper for 2015, in which it describes the security situation surrounding Japan as “increasingly tough.”
(VOVworld) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday called on South Korean lawmakers to work together to advance bilateral dialogue as the relations between the two countries are deteriorating due...
South Korea has protested Japan’s reiteration of its claim to the disputed islets called Dokdo and known as Takeshima in Japanese in a defense white paper published yesterday
A Japanese special envoy has met the South Korean president-elect in Seoul in a move aimed at helping soothe relations between the two countries. New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent...
(VOVworld)- One of the world’s top concerns in 2012 was security at sea as tensions over sea and island sovereignty arose in the Asia Pacific region, making sovereignty a...
1. 2012- A year of elections and power transitions Russia witnessed a Presidential power transition between Vladimir Putin and Dimitry Medvedev: Putin became Russian President after the Presidential election on March...
(VOVworld) - Japan's Vice Foreign Affairs Minister, Shuji Kira, has hinted that his country will delay taking the issue of the Dokdo islands to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said on Thursday that the decision made by the South Korean government to return Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s letter is an unbelievable...
Japanese news agency Kyodo says Japan’s Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto returned to Seoul on Wednesday, 12 days after he was recalled to Japan to protest South Korean President Lee Myung...
A small truck driven by a local man smashed into the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul on Monday morning, but no casualties were reported, said police. The policemen on guard...